Contribution Quotes - Page 2

• As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

  David Korten

  Practice, Long, Rogues

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• Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

  Brian Mulroney

  Canada, Save Nature

  "Life of Brian" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

  Judith Martin

  Pregnancy, Able, Morality

  Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Historical, Principles, Different

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• How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

  Howard Berman

  Pirate, Economy, Owners

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• The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

  Ken Burns

  Music, Country, Art

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• If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

  Peggy Noonan

  Moving, Government, Ifs

  Peggy Noonan, Steven Emerson, Brian Duffy, Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (1990). “Today's Best Nonfiction”

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• For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.

  Spencer Bachus

  Country, Opportunity, Land

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• This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

  Gerard Arpey

  Grateful, Loss, Support

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• America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

  Gordon Brown

  America, Promise, World

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• I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

  Paul Lynde

  Happiness, Laughter, People

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• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Spiritual, Long

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• The men who create power
  make an indispensable contribution
  to the nation's greatness.
  But the men who question power make
  a contribution just as indispensable
  for they determine whether
  we use power
  or power uses us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Greatness, Men, Use

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.816, Best Books on

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• There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

  Mitchell Baker

  Grateful, Differences, People

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• I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Teacher

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

  Frederick Sanger

  Art, Students, Improvement

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• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  John Roberts

  Church, Elements, Matter

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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Study, Range, Interest

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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• If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

  Rob Morrow

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Unique, Differences, Cogs

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Directors, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

  Mitch Daniels

  Weed, Real, Government

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• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  Robert Wyatt

  Important, Band, Roger

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• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Men, Wish

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• India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

  Stafford Cripps

  Special, Being Free, Firsts

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